Theaetetus:DeathByGeekSquad: demidog: KarmicDisaster: I've seen it, it looks gross but the worst part is the smell.

The wall or Tacoma?

Seattle.

I was in Seattle in late August. Downtown smells like urine.

You must have done some tourist shiat I don't do. Live three miles from downtown Seattle and I don't recall any urine bouquet in 27 years despite the homeless issues. The market in the daytime is for tourists and pioneer square the same but at night. That's how I see it anyway.

I was at the Market a week or so after the cleaning. It smelled just as bad as it always does, and I didn't even get close. The only reason I joined the other family tourists was to buy a couple tye dyes from the vendors in the alley outside. Some awesome shirts there, often some rather tasteful ones...

I was at the Market a week or so after the cleaning. It smelled just as bad as it always does, and I didn't even get close. The only reason I joined the other family tourists was to buy a couple tye dyes from the vendors in the alley outside. Some awesome shirts there, often some rather tasteful ones...

Hey! This is a great solution to problem of Civil War statues. Instead of knocking them down, every forward-thinking, modern, decent person should visit them en masse and stick a piece of chewing gum on them. Before long they'll just be covered in gum and you won't see General Lee underneath.

We had a Douglas Coupland sculpture at the Vancouver art gallery called 'Gumhead'. Same idea; it was a huge head that everyone stuck their gum to. It lasted over 1 summer I think. By the end it was a disguting, drippy mess and it was swarming with wasps.

I'm a relatively new resident here in the PNW. but my first visit to Seattle included tons of homeless, smell of urine, homeless pissing openly in the alleys, and dog shiat everywhere. Kind of ruined the idea of what I thought Seattle was. Portland was nice, but had the same problems...but the homeless seemed a little crazier there, especially around Voodoo Donut.

Frothy Panties:I'm a relatively new resident here in the PNW. but my first visit to Seattle included tons of homeless, smell of urine, homeless pissing openly in the alleys, and dog shiat everywhere. Kind of ruined the idea of what I thought Seattle was. Portland was nice, but had the same problems...but the homeless seemed a little crazier there, especially around Voodoo Donut.

Good grief, what did you do, sign up for the Rats-n-Urine Alley Tour? I've lived in Seattle more than 30 years, and that stuff is here but you kind of have to be seeking it out for it to be that bad.

I accidentally discovered this "tourist attraction" when I was there a month ago. It was as foul and disgusting as you'd imagine. Also, some idiot was trying to drive through the alley and the crowd and the gum.

raygundan:I accidentally discovered this "tourist attraction" when I was there a month ago. It was as foul and disgusting as you'd imagine. Also, some idiot was trying to drive through the alley and the crowd and the gum.

You do realize the alley is an actual one-way public street only legally accessible from 1st and Pike? Tenants live there as do businesses who receive deliveries, particularly the brewery sending out shipments.